Segment 1: The Foundation of Assessment for Learning
Learning goals and success criteria are the foundation on which students base their ability to monitor their learning and determine next steps.
Segment 2: Developing Learning Goals
Learning goals are brief statements that describe, for students, what they should know and be able to do by the end of a period of instruction
Segment 3: Sharing and Clarifying Learning Goals
By ensuring that students clearly understand learning goals, teachers set the stage for students to be able to focus their efforts on achieving the goals, monitoring their progress, and setting their own goals.
Segment 4: Developing Success Criteria
Success criteria describe what success “looks like”, and when used to give descriptive feedback when assessing, provide both the teacher and the student information about learning.
Segment 5: Helping Students Understand Criteria
Success criteria describe, for students, what successful learning ‘looks like’. It is critical to students’ success that they and their teacher have a clear and shared understanding of the criteria.
Segment 6: Co-constructing Success Criteria
By directly involving students in the development of criteria, teachers help students to develop a common understanding of the criteria by which performance will be judged.
Learning goals and success criteria are the foundation on which students base their ability to monitor their learning and determine next steps.
Learning goals are brief statements that describe, for students, what they should know and be able to do by the end of a period of instruction
By ensuring that students clearly understand learning goals, teachers set the stage for students to be able to focus their efforts on achieving the goals, monitoring their progress, and setting their own goals.
Success criteria describe what success “looks like”, and when used to give descriptive feedback when assessing, provide both the teacher and the student information about learning.
Success criteria describe, for students, what successful learning ‘looks like’. It is critical to students’ success that they and their teacher have a clear and shared understanding of the criteria.
By directly involving students in the development of criteria, teachers help students to develop a common understanding of the criteria by which performance will be judged.